Special Session

Arrangements in Topology and Algebraic Geometry

Organizers:  Dan Cohen   and  Alex Suciu

Friday, March 14		Afternoon Session Room 226, Tureaud Hall
2:15	Michael Falk	Projective line complexes and resonance varieties
2:55	Graham Denham	Equivariant Euler characteristics of Milnor fibres of reflection arrangements
3:35	Anne Shepler	Graded Hecke algebras
4:15	David Forge	Some combinatorics of Orlik-Solomon algebras
4:55	José Ignacio Cogolludo	Alexander Modules, Derived Series and Hyperplane Arrangements
Saturday, March 15		Morning Session Room 226, Tureaud Hall
9:00	Richard Randell	Cell structures for arrangements
9:40	Kevin Knudson	Completions of braid groups
10:20	Karl-Dieter Crisman	Chow groups on complements of arrangements; a first step
Saturday, March 15		Afternoon Session Room 226, Tureaud Hall
2:30	Andras Némethi	Seiberg-Witten invariants and surface singularities
3:10	Laura Stevens	Modular transformations of the elliptic hypergeometric functions, Macdonald polynomials, and the shift operator
3:50	Richard Scott	Mock reflection groups and blow-ups of real hyperplane arrangements
4:30	Satyan Devadoss	Associahedra in tori and projective spaces
Sunday, March 16		Morning Session Room 226, Tureaud Hall
10:00	Peter Orlik	Gauss-Manin connections for arrangements
10:40	Kwai-Man Fan	Deformations of complexified real arrangements
11:20	Aaron Abrams	Optimal trajectories for robots in the plane